17th May 2012

Internets of Interest: 28th Oct

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CCIE Water Cooler Gossip: Tolly’s Review of IPexpert vs. Internetwork Expert CCIE Labs | NetworkWorld.Com Community

The online bitch-slapping-fest between IPexpert and Internetwork Expert has reached a rather fevered pitch after Brad Reese spewed up the biggest troll post I have seen in years. There seems to be a lot of ego, a lot of history, and airing of dirty laundry going on here. It not pretty for anyone involved, and [...]

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Foundry Postpones Vote on Brocade Deal, Stock Plunges – Network World

The path to FCoE is not running smoothly is it?

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More Racks From InternetExpert – Better Time Slots

Internetwork Expert has announced more lab racks coming online in November. Most important is the new time slots which recognise that not every customer lives in America and will suit more customers globally.

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Rant: SecureCRT – Too Expensive – Alternatives Putty, Tera Term ?

SecureCRT is a common choice for SSH Client for MS Windows. I want to buy SecureCRT but its too expensive. Way too expensive. Or is it just me ?

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Internets of Interest: 23rd Oct

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Network Dictionary – NAT’D

NAT’d – when indicating that a flow has undergone Network Address Translation, abbreviated as NAT, it is NAT’d.

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NAT’D or Translated – The Votes Are in – We Have a WINNER

The poll votes are in, the Magic Gnomes have carefully examined all the ballots (in addition to the their day job of checking all the packets

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Network Dictionary – Magic Hand Wave

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of The Future”, 1961 (Clarke’s third law) Refers to those times when a colleague says “let me fix that” and proceeds to issue a string of commands on the keyboard (thus waving hands about) and then says “there you go”. I call this [...]

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Internets of Interest: 18th October Through 21st October

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